LEDs GLOW IN ANTICIPATION

摘要

Illuminating the dark recesses of the lighting industry is no trivial task. For sure, though, equating lighting with incandescent-lamp technology is so 20th century. Even newer forms of lighting, such as compact-fluorescent- and high-intensity-discharge lamps, which continue to evolve at a relatively rapid pace, are no longer at the leading edge. Most of the innovation in lighting now focuses on solid-state light sources―meaning mainly LEDs (light-emitting diodes). Nevertheless, LEDs, despite becoming the dominant form of indicator, have so far enjoyed their biggest lighting successes in specialized applications. A few more years―and maybe more―will almost surely have to pass before solid-state sources mature to the point at which they can wrest the majority of lamp sockets from older forms of illumination.